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[Android General] "Q":
Battery icon fixed

It seems that the problem was the lost of calibration of battery after disconnecting terminals.

I left phone connected all night with wifi and bt enabled till empy battery.

Low battery signal sounded 7h later, then full charged (needs 3.5h) and now all ok.

Battery icons and charging behaviour are right now.

I have to advise people about desoldering battery terminals:

DON NOT TRY IT IF YOU HAVE NO EXPERIENCE AND EQUIPPEMENT (mini-soldering needed)

I did it bcos planned to change battery for a better one.

V5+ has a 4.4 Wh and I have a 5.3 Wh (1430 mAh) bought in eBay with screewdriver for about $10

So now I'm able to contiue with rooting thanks to the excellent tutorial for this phone :good:
[Android General] bOyka8:
Are you going to solder an iphone 4s battery on the gooapple :o? If so, could you make a tutorial on how to do it if it works?

I too would like to change the battery but I'm a bit scared of doing it as I'm not sure if it will work.

My dad can do the soldering, he's an electrician so he should be able to do so :D

Ow and something else. I had to buy a new USB cable because this one that comes with the phone is really terrible.. After a few days , the USB mode didn't work for me anymore at all. No recognition etc maybe the same as you have. But then I used a real USB cable (20€) and it works perfecly.
[Android General] "Q":
OK!

Finaly rooted

But How can I lnow it's rooted?

screen looks the same....

About extra cable, I bought in Amazon a charging docking for iPhone4 with standard mini-USB socket and audio output. Very nice quality (heavy, rubber on down...)

I have not checked yet the audio out, hope is compatible with iPhone4, any experience here?

I can post tutorial of battery change but I still have the original....
[Android General] bOyka8:
Yeah it should be the same but sometimes you should get a popup of SuperUser allowing stuff. But you can use tools to check if it's rooted. Personaly I like using Mobiluncle tools from Google Play Store which shows at the first screen if its rooted. This tool is also usefull to reboot into recovery easy.

& ok, I hope the battery will work. & I haven't been able to check if the audio is compatible :D
[Android General] "Q":
Thanks so much for support :)

I installed Root explorer and can enter into system...

will install Mobileuncle tools and will see.

Just 1 question: to recover a backup of the Android system and applications installed, just copy my backup file (recovery.img) in SD root and boot in recovery mode (have to change .img to .zip or what) how it is?)
[Android General] bOyka8:
Nonoo !

The recovery.img is the menu where you can create a backup like this:

The backup you created is in /sdcard/clockworkmod/ so when the backup is done, you can move this folder to your PC and when you want to restore the backup, you move it back to the SDcard and then do restore via recovery menu.
[Android General] "Q":
I have no clockworkmod folder :/

Should have been removed after Reset to Factry Settings....

o after rooting.

So I have to make one ASAP

Uncletools sat ROOT :good:
[Android General] bOyka8:
In mobile uncle tools select "Into Recovery Mode" , then it will boot into recovery, here select backup and restore and choose backup. Let it for a couple minutes.

But I think I see what you mean... if I try to do a backup now, it says :

E:failed to find "data" partition to mount at "data"

Can't mount /data!

do you have this too?
[Android General] "Q":
Yes, I have the same...

So no backup?

I have:

boot.img5.0MB

recovery.img 5.0 MB

system.yaffs2.img 275.7MB

Audio output works from 30pin connector
[Android General] bOyka8:
Just flashed another recovery.img with another version of Mobile Uncle tools and now my backup works. I'll report this to yuweng.

http://www.mediafire.com/?p800eemqt76bzsy This is the other version of Mobile Uncle tools

http://www.mediafire.com/?ahg99z9jvj9da93 This is the recovery.img that works for backup

Place both in the root of your SD card, install m44tools.apk, open it, click Get Started, Click OK on the popup, then select Flash Recovery From SdCard, select the recovery.img and it will flash the recovery and reboot into it.

Now you can make a backup :D

& I don't know anything about those things xd (pins)
[Android General] "Q":
So I loose the CWMR recovery that installed for rooting?

What happens with the files the failled backup created (I listed in previous post) No useful? I must remove?

Titanium backup can help?

I tried changing logo and even romoving the originals, doesn't work, a ANDRIOD appears after the robot
[Android General] bOyka8:
If you flash the recovery.img via m44tools I gave in the last post, it will just overwrite the recovery just as you've done before (replacing the original recovery.img) and the Root will still be active.

You can delete those files yes, just make a new backup :d, no need for titanium backup.

And are you sure you overwriten the logo's and rebooted?
[Android General] "Q":
It should be great fix that problem with recovery. Do you have screen shots of the new?

Abut the logo change, I have repeated opperation and now first android and later apple :)

OK, sorry.

Just that I had to reset phone after it and boot in recovery, so choosed BOOT NOW and then apeared apple and android
[Android General] bOyka8:
About recovery:

The phone has a standard recovery (e3) on this phone. You replaced it with ClockWorkMod Recovery(CMWR) v6.0.2.5 but this one is bugged so thats why I gave you this 6.0.0.7 version :

http://www.mediafire.com/?p800eemqt76bzsy This is the older version of Mobile Uncle tools where you can easy flash the recovery once rooted.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ahg99z9jvj9da93 This is the recovery.img that works for backup.

So what do you mean screenshot of the new?

& Good to know the boot logo works :D I haven't figured out yet on how to change the first android logo :(
[Android General] "Q":
Just wanted to know if it has the same menus and touchscreen in recovery boot or not...

About Android logo, I have been playing with the files.

If remove the Android-related files from logo folder it boots with an animation of A-N-D-R-O-I-D after the always persistent and staborn robot :(

>So the robot has a different file, out ot logo folder, I can't get rid of it.

If use the files in the tutorial, the apple icon is shown twice, after the robot, the first apple is brigther, then the second a bit dimished.

I think you have other show? How is it when it works as you expect?
[Android General] bOyka8:
Don't remove the files that are called android just overwrite them !

Inside the android file, there is the apple logo so don't bother changing it.

The android logo should be stored somewhere else but I haven't figured out where yet :(

For me it's :

Start phone - Show Android/Robot logo - Show Apple logo - Show Apple logo - Menu

but it should be

Start phone- Show apple logo - Show apple logo - Show apple logo - Menu
[Android General] "Q":
Yeah! it deserves a dedicated thead...

I think robot is the SPLASH-SCREEN of this phone

There are some people in this forum duscusing about changing it

see for instance http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=753788

I a bit lost with this flashing and recoverys...

Ah! something I wanted to ask you is if the backup files done with new recovery.img are compatible with other recovery in case I change it in the future for any reason.

Thanks
[Android General] bOyka8:
I tried that splashscreen thing but I can't get in hboot =(

And no they are not compatible ! It's like brands.. you've got CMWR and TWPR or something CMWR backups don't work on TWPR.

But for instance CMWR v6.0.0.7 backups work on v6.0.2.7 CMWR.
[Android General] "Q":
gps.conf

Hi!

I checked for file gps.conf in /system/etc but is not there!

Even after several successful epo downloads

I have hiden files as "show" but.....

Use ESexplorer

Any idea?
[Android General] bOyka8:
It ain't there by default, you have to add it yourself.

Just create a simple text file called gps.conf, open it and then I have this in it:

This is for belgium though (notice the be.pool.ntp.org)
[Android General] "Q":
Thanks for info.

Created config file and first tine I think I saw same points in GPS-status but no more.:/

Will still working on it.

By the way, some people recommend FasterFix to probably generate right confi files for each region.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.Double.FasterFix

It needs root and BusyBox installed.

Do you know if it works in V5+?

Has BusyBox?
[Android General] bOyka8:
That FasterFix does the same thing as we did manually. I created a gps.conf with fasterfix, then I tried it, didn't work properly so I changed it to my country and it was better. So not much use to that =(

& So yeah fasterfix works on our phone. But with adding that gps.conf you have to give it some specific permission
[Android General] "Q":
Okay, I also changed to my country (Spain) and tried with Europe, as some people suggested.

Even have been changing the signal filtering with GPS-Status....

This morning I left the phone finding satellites in open-air place for 40min time and even downloading epo files etc... it found nothing.

No red or green points in status with M.Uncle. nothing at all.

Last night, after adding gps.conf, I think I saw little numbers in that moving grid and very small strengh signal-lines below in the status screen of GPS-Status, but closed the program and no more...

I set permissions as shown in youtube by a guy from US

Last news:

Right now. at home with wifi, GPS.Status showing again 11 satellites (0/11 FIXED)

Looks like if wifi is esential for this part of accuaring from cold
[Android General] bOyka8:
I only get red dots for the gps test, never green.. The phone has been searching for over 30 min now for green dots but nothing, just red -_-

For the RootExplorer.. I suggest doing this

Install ES File Explorer File Manager

Remove RootExplorer (the default and the one you installed)

Install RootExplorerPro from SDCard with apk via ES File Explorer

Remove ES File Explorer File manager

Now you only have the RootExplorerPro. And if you want to change the icon you could try this tutorial out

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1674266

I'll try it later today too after football training, or tomorow.
[Android General] "Q":
Well, that's not exactly the problem I have.

Is the FILE MANAGER program (by default in V5+) that gives his icon to ROOT EXPLORER.

So, 2 FILE MANAGER icons but the second open Root Expl.

I tried moving the last one to other window/page (in a moment when it looks like the real RootExpl and by now it is working as expected.

I will read the link you send, very usefull, thanks

.

I post a screen shot of GPS Status trying to aquare satellites

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[Android General] lss795:
HELP!!!

i was trying to make a recovery backup but when i was on the last step to press "-" and plug in the usb in phone, nothing was happend.after that i made it a lot of time but nothing.after all my efforts to make that i unpluged the phone from usb.NOW I CANT OPEN THE PHONE ,I PRESS THE POWER BUTTON AND NOTHING HAPPENS. WHAT CAN I DO FOR THAT??? PLEASE HELP ME !!!!! :crying:
[Android General] chrisrock782003:
Hello man,

just to understand for me. Does your problems with the GPS mean that you can´t navigate to a place with an app like google maps or something or is the function just worse than on other smartphones. Because if you can´t navigate to any place I don´t understand why three out of three owners of the gooapple v5 + choose that they are very happy with this mobile phone.

Next thing is that I would ask if you know that mayiandjay also had problems with his GPS on the older gooapple v5 3G and he cannot fix the problem because the GPS will not work in his country or with his provider...I think?!

And at last I want you to know that at the older gooapple v5 3G you could choose two different Roms. One with the apple and one with the gooapple bootlogo. They where both available on the gooapple homepage. So if you wanted it to look like original while booting you could have chosen the one withe the apple and if you want to enjoy the astonished looks of the people whil booting you could have chosen the one with the robot.

I hope I give you some new information and I hope that they are right and I can help a bit. ;)

I wanted to order mine last friday but they don´t send til the 15th of february because of chinese spring festival so I have to wait another few days... -(
[Android General] "Q":
Hi!

Don't worry, it happens often.

-Insert a toothpin inside the headset connector, to reach the reset switch placed inside (must notice a "click"). After it the phone will restart alone.

-Must install the proper driver in PC for the phone to be recognized. (Everything is written in this thread pages above...)

Good luck:
[Android General] bOyka8:
@"Q"

About the satellites. I use Mobile Uncle Tools > Developer Mode > MTK > YGPS, in here I can see red dots on the radar which should turn to green which is somehow not happening.

@lss795

Yeah like "Q" says, use a toothpick or something and stick in in the headphone jack. There's a reset button in there (you should feel the button going down).

This phone can be a mess at the beginning but after a while & when you get to know it , it works pretty neat !

@chrisrock782003

About the GPS. For people from china it works from scratch but for us it needs a little workaround which we havent figured out yet. But I don't really need this function so I still like this phone as it looks & feels just like the iphone. Still not regretting it !

About mayiandjay, he did manage to get the GPS to work on his GooApple V5 3G

[youtube]KpcAruIQs2Q[/youtube]

About the ROM, yes there is another ROM for this phone which has the Apple Logo but it has much more chinese stuff on it + the launcher is different and it doesnt have the white notification bar.

I did had a full working apple logo on this (standard) ROM I have now but somehow it's gone since I flashed another ROM, then went back to the stock ROM. So it's still there somewhere :(

& haha yeah I read about that 15th of February :D good luck on the wait man !

& something else I wanna say is that before you actually start to use your phone, I recommend doing a clear of cache and Wipe Data/ Factory Reset. Plus I also did some Full Cleaning with Root Cleaner which also removed some errors. And last I also did Pimp My Rom which improved a few stuff too.

But it's just .. I want this GPS to work as its included and might be usefull someday, I also want this iphone keyboard replica to be in full english and last I also want the boot and usb storage mode to be like iphone but still figuring out
[Android General] chrisrock782003:
AW: The GooApple V5+ - Information thread

Hey thanks for the reply I think there maybe will two possibilities if I have to wait longer and longer to order mine.

First I will get it and you and all the other owners have already solved all the problems so I may use the perfect clone and just be thankful for your work.

Our second till I can order it ours out of stock and there well be a bunch of new"better"clones;)

So I don't mind I will see in maybe two weeks I really hope I can order it then:D
[Android General] bOyka8:
I don't think mine will be a good idea xd full of games and apps but I do have a feeling that gooapple will update some ROM soon but I doubt it that they will make it english so you'll probably have to remove like 80% of the apps & get new apps.

But yeah I could backup my phone, then remove all the crap and make a ROM out of it.

And yes, maybe by 15february there will be a better iphone4/4s replica or you might change your mind to get an iphone 5 replica haha :D (it crossed my mind)
[Android General] "Q":
Increasing internal Memory

I installed 10 applications and had to move most of them to SDcard bcos no enough space, but phone sais:

94 MB used

33 MB free

So it has just 127 MB for programs :/

I wonder how people install so many games (I don't like games in phone) as shown in youtube...

Well, I decided to increase internal memory following the tutorial.

The questions are:

-I have to change the SDcard, so Can I copy my SDcard files (including the installed apps) to the new SD in the big partition and still working as before after running the recovery.sh?

-Or is better remove everything in original SD (uninstalling SD apps and deleting data)?

-The CWMR backup includes the SD?

Thanks so much
[Android General] bOyka8:
Doing this INT2EXT thing to increase internal memory can be a bad thing though. I had more errors with it because the loading speed of some apps is very slow + the phone worked slower in my opinion too.

So I'd suggest as you don't play much games, try to remove some system apps that you reallllllllly don't use on your phone. I did it with weater, the itunes replacement, compass etc.. as these as things I don't use.

Next I removed things as : Google Maps , Facebook, Youtube. These 3 can take a lot of internal memory but you can just get these back from google store and install them in your SDcard !

I have 11mb free of the 127 mb and I have all this installed: RootExplorer Pro, Root Cleaner, Mobile Uncle tools 2x, Pimp my rom, Whistle Android, µTorrent, MTK Flashlight, Sygic, Photaf, Shazam, Titanium Backup, Skype, Facebook, and 16 games so it's actually a lot but still I got 11mb free.

If you really want to do it, you can just copy the files from one SD to the other SD (thats how I did it).

But if you do, make sure that the other SDcard is class 10 or something.

About the CMWR , it doesnt backup the sdcard no =(
[Android General] "Q":
I have no games :) at least in phone. Just Avast may take more memory (?)

Okay, so I will not touch internal memory.

To remove such default included apps you use TitBack? Need the pro ver?

Ah! About GPS, I really hope this phone is not programmed to find only the COMPASS gps chinese net of satellites.

They have just a few and geostational (local use only).

Is expected to be global in 2020....

Maybe the original recovery of this phone had an "Engeenering Mode" to change gps configuration as other terminals have.
[Android General] bOyka8:
Yes use titanium backup pro to remove default included apps. This can improve your internal memory a lot.

I think it should work (GPS) as it can find the satellites but it just can't seem to get an answer back on where the phone is located or something.

You seem to know a lot of GPS though maybe you should check out the engineering mode.

You can find it in MobileUncle tools (the one from play store) and in there it says Engineering Mode
[Android General] "Q":
Yes, I had seen the Engeenering mode in MUncle and used the YGPS from begining, but maybe in the boot-recovery are more options like in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LfkgmMm1gq0#t=140s

Sorry, is Spanish from Colombia but can see how he boots in recovery and enter in ITEM TEST where can adjust the gps too.

Is different phone but.....

I'm not expert in GPS but I'm pretty sure the V5+ is not receiving signals from the satellites (GPS/GALILEO).

The red ponts we see are "expected" possitions calculated by EPO.

IMMO:o
[Android General] bOyka8:
There is still a way to get in some menu called Factory Mode.

You can get in there by trying this:

1. Shut off your phone

2. Then press and hold volume + and the power button. When it vibrates, release both and then press and hold both again.

And I think I'm going to start collecting all iphone like apps.

Messages - There is a better one out there. When you press and hold on a message and swipe left, you can call a person.

Calendar - It looks good but under the numbers are chinese signs so this we'll have to change

Photos - I have a Gallery that looks exact like the iphone's (From a new ROM)

Keyboard - There is a keyboard in the new ROM called "Google Pinyin IME" but I want to remove the chinese completely out of it so its only english and another version which has AZERTY

Camera - It's ok for me but I think there are better versions out there

Videos - Good enough for me.

Notes - Also good enough for me.

Settings - Looks good enough too.
[Android General] "Q":
Will try after a backup just in case.

It's only that the original recovery, done by GooApple, is the only that really knows what's inside the phone...

You had a great idea collecting the apps,

What I really want to get ride of are the Yahoo staff (wheather, Play, Stock etc)

Safari is just the Apple thing, I have Dolphin browser, much more powerful and can control by voice.

Music player is a perfect copy of iPhone player (for good and bad) Try to remove a song in the NowPlaying list...

Video player is ok but I was said to use VLC to avoid problems with codecs.

Avast! antivirus looks great for me that install apps from apk instead of paying for pro versions :cool:

---------- Post added at 06:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:45 PM ----------

The Root Explorer icon changed again to the same as FileManager (that icon with 2 faces face-to -face)

I think it happens bcos the name under the RootExp is "File Manager" too instead of Root Explorer.

ES Explorer works ok, no Interference.

Maybe removing the original File Manager (installed by default) can get rid of this problem, since this File Manager only access SDcard and even can improve memory.
[Android General] bOyka8:
What I really want to get ride of are the Yahoo staff (wheather, Play, Stock etc)

you can remove these with titanium backup :D !

Safari is just the Apple thing, I have Dolphin browser, much more powerful and can control by voice.

I'm having a few issues with Safari like passwords not saving, logins not saving and sometimes it takes like 10 tries to get the keyboard to popup -_- so maybe I'll search for an update for this

Video player is ok but I was said to use VLC to avoid problems with codecs.

I convert my videos to the same format iphone uses. With XmediaRecode so I'mma stay with this default player :D
[Android General] lss795:
boot logo

i already root the phone and im trying to change the boot logo but i cant. can anyone sent some pics with how to do that??
[Android General] bOyka8:
Have you tried this?
[Android General] lss795:
i cant understant where exactly i go to change the permissions to R/W and where i paste the system folder
[Android General] "Q":
I have made some advances regarding to GPS.

First I found this web http://www.darkyrom.com/index.php?threads/guide-gps-quickest-fix-solution.2022/

But after using this gps.conf (changing country) and leave phone with wifi and carrier data I had no results either..

However the phone receives signals from satellites as I could discover,.

I disconnected wifi and data and left phone searching alone with YGPS (restart/full/cold) and after about 20 min I saw one signal-strength line that strongly depends on position (I was in the window).

As soon as 2 satellites are received they send the constellation callendar to phone and next start will be much faster.

I will be trying more times and sugest someone else to do the same to explore all possibilities :rolleyes:
[Android General] bOyka8:
choose any file or folder→ long press on it → choose properties →change permissions as you like :D

& That's some good news Q ! I'll try it in a sec :D
[Android General] "Q":
At least we know the phone is sensitive to GPS signals....

Don't need AGPS or EPO to work, it's suposed to faster fixing possition. But in our case is not useful for some reason,

Read this please:

"Today's GPS receivers store this orbit information for all of the GPS satellites in what is known as an almanac. Think of the almanac as a "bus schedule" advising you of where each satellite will be at a particular time. Each GPS satellite continually broadcasts the almanac. Your GPS receiver will automatically collect this information and store it for future reference."

Souce: http://www.cmtinc.com/gpsbook/index.htm#chap3

2 satellites detected in the screenshot,. from a window and without EPO.

In open sky maybe can fix possition with time.